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J. NEERPASGH.

I TAILORS' PRESSING BOARD. No. 272,746. i Patented Feb. 20, 1883.

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UNITED STATES JOHN NEERPASGH, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

TAILORS PRESSING=BQARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,746, dated February 20, 1883. Application filed May 6, 1882. (No model.)

To all'whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN NEERPASOH, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a-new and useful Improvement in Tailors Pressing-Boards, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawlugs.

The object of my invention is to produce a pressing-board provided with chambers in which to receive heated bodies, and means to adjust said heated bodies with reference to the ironing-surface, to provide a swivel movement for said ironing-board by means of which it may be swung round horizontally upon the table, and to provide spaces beneath the heaterchambers to prevent heat from theheaters being communicated to the table. Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is-a side elevation of my improved pressing-board longitudinally and vertically sectioned through a part of its length; Fig. 2, a plan of the same; and Fig. 3, an end elevation, viewed as indicated by the arrow.

In the figures, A represents a portion of the top board of a table or bench, B the baseblock of the pressing-board resting upon the table, and O the body of the pressing-board, surmounted by the curved plate I), which I prefer to make of sheet iron or steel, polished upon its upper surface, which plate forms the pressing-board proper of the device. The body 0 of the pressing-board is provided with chambers d, under the plate I), in which to place blocks a of previously-heated iron or heaters to communicate heat to said plate, said blocks or heaters being provided at their respective ends with cavities c, in which to receive the end of a suitable handle with which tolift and move the heaters or blocks. Thumbscrews'e, reaching up through the floors of the chambers (I, serve to raise the heaters to up near to or against the plate I) for the purpose of communicating heat more rapidly to said plate, if required.

By heating the plate bof the pressing-board as above set forth the seams of garments or cloth placed thereon may be successfully pressed by a cold or moderately-"warm goose or smoothing-iron; or if there are two seams to be pressed-as, for instance, the two seams on opposite sides of the leg of a pair of pantaloonsthey may be arranged one upon the other on the heated plate I), and with a hot smoothing-iron both seams be simultaneously pressed, heat being communicated to them from both beneath and above.

A cross-partition,g, is employed to divide the chambers cl cl and stiffen the body 0 of the pressing-board, which, however, may boomitted, leaving one continuous chamber through the body.

The base-block B is secured to the top board, A, of the table or work-bench by means of a bolt, f, reaching up through the center of said base-block beneath the body of the pressingboard, as shown. By means of this bolt the base-block may be held rigidly to the top of the table; or, if said bolt be loosened,the baseblock, with its mounted pressing-board, may be turned horizontally around upon the table, the bolt acting as a pivot for this swivel movement of the block and pressing-board, said swivel movement permitting the pressingboard to be adjusted to positions to accommodate ditterent kinds of work.

The body 0 of the pressing-board is held away from the base-block B by means of the downward-projecting feet i i, forming open spaces 0 between the plate or floor s of the body and said block B, by means of which heat from the heaters a is prevented from being communicated to the block B and the top A of the table sufliciently to injure the latter. The feet z i of the body 0 are secured rigidiy to the base-block B by simple means. (Not shown.)

I claim as my invention 1. In tailors pressing-boards, the combination, with the top board, A, of a table, of. the base-block B, and clamping-bolt f for said block, and the body 0 of the pressing-board mounted upon and secured to the said block B,and provided with cavities d d and heatingblocks a a placed therein,and the plate I),substantially as shown, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The chambered body 0 of a tailors pressin g-board,in combination with heaters a,placed within the chambers of the body, and means to adjust said heaters vertically within the chambers.

3. In tailors pressing-boards, the combinafeet 73 z, forming open spaces 0 0 obetween the tion, with the top board, A, of the table, of the floor sot the body 0 and the block B, substan- 1o swivel base-bl0ek B, a-nd clampingbolt f for tially as and for the purpose set forth. said block B and the body (J of the pressin 5 board mounted upon and secured rigidly to tli e JOHN NEERPASGH' said block B, and provided with cavities ddand WVitnesses:

heating-blocks a a, placed therein, and'the E. B. WHITMORE, plate I), the body 0 being also provided with MINNIE NIEREq 

